Beginner Gardening: I Have GREEN!, 1 by dividedsky

dividedsky wrote:
Beans are so vigorous! They just pop right up and grrrrooowww!

I put a few extra green bean seeds in the ground not long ago (it's a little late, but we'll see what they do) and the rate of growth is amazing. As you're saying, I'm noticing quite a difference in growth from one day to another. Maybe next year I'll do a photo essay on one plant from seed to harvest - daily pics. They're incredible.

Speaking of gardening enthusiasm, I did some work in my garden yesterday and came back to my apartment with some squash and herbs in hand. There was a group of preteen girls playing and they stopped me to look at what I had. They were so excited! I had them smell the different herbs and tell me what they thought they smelled like. They were even passing around the yellow crookneck squash and smelling it! One girl said Thank you for the zucchini bread; it was delicious. (I'd given her aunt a half loaf to share with her family.) And another girl wanted to know what zucchini looked like. So I got one off the counter and brought it out, more passing around and smelling - it looks like a giant pickle! And I had some green beans, so they passed those around. One girl, petting the green beans lightly: I didn't know they were fuzzy!

So much fun! I don't spend much time around kids, but I kind of feel like I want to do more of that type of thing because kids should know where their food comes from and experience how amazing the natural world is.